The fabulous blog Free the Princess has only recently made it onto my radar by publishing a series about Steampunk and Multiculturalism by Ay-Leen the Peacemaker (It’s coming this way next, don’t worry!), but this post by K. Marie Criddle from a while ago was too funny not to share:

hahaaa!!!! this is awesome. I don’t think this is supposed to belittle steampunk, just poke fun at. hey, it’s fun. what does Penny Arcade say about gamers? What does Blue Milk Special say about Star Wars?

I think it’s hilarious — and I have a steampunk young adult book coming out next spring. I have seen a lot of authors jump on the steampunk bandwagon, which is unfortunate, but a lot of those books won’t get published. You have to love it to write it, and even then there will be people who don’t agree with your vision, so why put yourself out there for judgment if you don’t freaking love the genre?

Recently I read about a ‘steampunk’ book that referred to 1830 as part of the Victorian period, which it obviously wasn’t. The snob in me figured if she couldn’t get the era sorted out the rest of the book wouldn’t bode well.

And now I’m off to make sure I have enough mention of brass cogs in my book!

I wouldn’t argue 7 years if a person wanted to write a book/story/song/poem set in that year and call it Steampunk. Of course not. I would, however, argue that 1830 was part of the Victorian period. I figure that is something you would easily find out in your research.

That *does* sound really snobby doesn’t it? lol. I guess it’s just one of those things that pushes my buttons.